Lot 271
  • 271

Alexander Calder

Estimate
400,000 - 600,000 USD
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Description

  • Alexander Calder
  • Untitled
  • oil on canvas
  • 28 3/4 by 36 in. 73 by 91.4 cm.
  • Executed in 1959, this work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application A10380.

Provenance

Private Collection, France (gift of the artist)
Credite Municipal de Paris at Hôtel des Ventes, Paris, November 5, 1992, lot 12
Acquired by the present owner from the above sale

Exhibited

New York, Helly Nahmad Gallery, Alexander Calder: The Painter, November 2011 - January 2012, p. 58, illustrated in color

Condition

This work is in fair condition overall. There is evidence of light wear and handling along the edges including some paint losses in the corners and some hairline craquelure at the pull margins. Under close inspection there are some abrasions, faint scratches and spot and drip accretions visible in scattered areas throughout. There is some stable hairline craquelure visible 14¼ inches from the left edge and 5½ inches from the upper edge. Under Ultraviolet light inspection there are areas that fluoresce darkly 11½ inches from the left edge and 6 ¼ inches from the upper edge, 16 inches from the left edge and 4 inches from the upper edge, in the upper edge of the left half, in the red area and in some sparsely scattered places throughout that appear to have benefitted from restoration. Framed.
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